Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-04-15

The civil service commissioners say tina
there is a scarcity of male stenographers
who are also type writer's. Tho salary in
thi, branch of public service r-nse from
$1,000 TO Sl,s0) per annum.
The department of agriculture is desir
Gus OF promptly stamping out pleuro-
pneumonia and "A circular has been issued
asking governors and state legislatures TO
aid in accomplishing this purpose
Captain John Grant, well known rail
road contractor and engineer, died recent
~ at New Orleans aged 81. He leaves
eighty living descendants including a
daughter in san Antonio, aged 20.
News just received from Yorkville, s.
c., announces the lynching of five Negroes
there the other morning They murdered
"A boy last December who informed on
them about stealing from the fields.
Hong Kong and Shanghai banking cor
porations of San Francisco received a con-
signment of 2,5 600 trade dollars from
Hong Kong 10y the steamer City OF Pekin
to be exchanged for standard dollars.
The interstate law has compelled the
railways running from the United States
to New Brunswick TO raise their rates
and thus the traffic between the countrie-
will revert TO the steamship companies.
Indian Agent Osl orne killed +. NJ. Smith
the farmer appointed by himself at the
! Ponca Pawnee and Otoe agency, Indian
Territory, he claims in selfdefense, and
/ asks the Indian commissions, to exonerate
him
The secretary OF the navy invites sealed
proposals from American ship builders in
| tho United States for building five new
war vessels. The most modern designs
and the highest rate of speed attainahle
are essential.
Marble busts % the vice president at
$500 each have been ordered for the CAPT
to- at Washington. II there is compe
tent sculptor ia the state which the vice
president represented. the work will lie
given TO him.
Four thousand two hundrel and seven
ty-three immigrants were land "a at Castle
Gard,n on tie ~th inst, the largest mum
her i'm one day at tins season of the year
since Castle Ca d was first used as q re
ceptlon place for mmis ants.
Tie ppre.idert la appointed Eug ne
Semp'e OF Wa,hinct n Territory 20 lie gov
ernor OF Washin- ton Territory; Samuel
d. shannon of wy ming TO b. 80 retarv
Of Wyoming and ID 4. Turner of New
York to he consul 1t Mozambique
st Joseph, Mo, has been made \ ma
tonal bank reserve city. Mis- ouri
is the only state which has as yet
taken advantage OF the provisions Of
the recent act Of congress authorizing the
establishment of central reserve ana re
serve citi 5
The total redemption OF trade dollars.
amounts TO S2s75 10 The redcmptions
are slow and indicate that there are less
Of these coins in existence than was at
first supposed. 1t is now thought that the
entire red amption will not exceed $1,000,
900 or 10000
The Maumee rolling mills at Tole TO-
were destroyed 10y ire on the 10th inst
The mil and plant Of machinery, ground.
railway tracks AMI franchise represent "a
total outlay on the part o! the company
Of 10000, of when one-half is lost with
5000 insurance.
Joseph \. Bradley, cOun e. for Surrat in
in the conspiracy in the cases growing out
of Pre- ident Lincoln's assassination, died
in Washington recently aged 81 lie was
disbarred by Judge Fisher for disloyalty
and challenged the judge 10 a duel. which
challenge wa, unnotlced.
The New jersey house of representatives,
has adopted a resolution protesting
against the coercion attempted by Eng
land against Ireland and expressing sym
patty with Messrs Gladstone and Parneil
and their followers in their struggles and
efforts against such an act.
\ suit for salary due over twenty-five
years, but virtually for the purpose Of
testing "the boundary line of authority
between the secretary Of war and com
manding generals of the army has been
filed at Washington by Chas. w. Moulton,
brother in-law of Senator sherman
John r. Raymond the celebrated actor,
died at Evan sville Ind, on the morningo Of
the 10th inst. He arrived in that city two
days before, and was 10 have played an
engagement there but was taken sudden
" i'll from intestinal disorder, complicated
with heart troubles, and die a stated, on
the morning Of the 18th.
Reports Of great suffering from drought
continue to come in from the cotton and
cattle districts Of the southwest. a letter
published in the San Antonio Times from
the postmaster at Rossville represents the
condition in his neighborhood as truly dis
tressing and calls upon the business men
of San Antonio for relief.
Samuel l.. Clemens, o. w. Homes, Julia
Ward Howe Edward Everett Hale Thorn.
as Bailey Aldrich, r. w. Higginson, VIM.
Dean Howels, George William Curtis and
James Russell Lowell read from their
works for the benefit OF the Longfellow
Memorial in Boston recently. The enter
tainment Melted So 600 for the fund
Judge William Strong died at Portland
Ore. on the 10th inst of Inflammation OF
the liver age ~. He went to Oregon,
then territory, inls5O with the appoint
ment as fedora judge from President Fill
more. He was a cousin OF Judge Strong
OF the Unite t,tes supreme bench, and
n descendant OF the noted Strong family.
The PRESIDENT has appointed the follow
ing government directors OF the Union
Pacific railroad company: Frederick X.
Coudert Of New YORK; Frank Mac Weigh
Of Chicago; Alexander Haskell Of Colum-